Anand "Lucky" Jesrani recently was the recipient of the 20 Under 40 of Shasta County award.  The awards reception was held on January 25, 2012 and was presented by the Redding Record Searchlight.  The class of 2011 features 20 north state individuals, including Mr. Jesrani, under the age of 40 who demonstrate l

Valentine's Day is fast approaching and tickets to the Record Searchlight's fifth annual Eat Dessert First! event make a great early Valentine's Day gift.

This graph illustrates the trajectory of Shasta County’s median home prices for the last decade. I plotted the data from David Benda’s recent article in the Record Searchlight about the 15% increase in home sales

This is a follow up to yesterday’s post about David Benda’s recent article in the Record Searchlight about our local housing sales. I pulled this data from the Shasta MLS and put it in graphic form to illustrate the trends.

Delivery of the Record Searchlight to the Lakehead, Burney and Shingletown areas may be delayed this morning due to ice and snow on the roads.

I saw three news stories about people in their twenties in this Sunday's Record Searchlight:

Readers: The Record Searchlight introduces a new weekly column that will run each Thursday in the Health section. Jon Grabeal is a certified trainer who will share exercises and tips on doing them correctly. He will also answer readers' questions.

As I sit here and read another opinion in the Record Searchlight and listen to the left-wing media harp on the lack of bipartisanship in the GOP, I have all I can do to keep a straight face at the hypocrisy of the left. When Nancy Pelosi and the weasel Harry Reid were heading the Congress, all their dastardly deeds were don

I have been informed that the listing of the lowest prices on gas, published every day in the Record Searchlight, is of the paper's own doing and not the gas stations. I believe this is not fair to the readers.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Here's what's closed and open Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Government: State, county, city and federal offices closed. Mail: No delivery. Schools: Closed. Commerce: Most retail stores open, most banks closed. Trash pickup: Redding routes one day late, Shasta Lake, An

Ryan Hall, whom the USA Today calls "America's fastest marathoner", tells the national publication today that he is relying on his faith to make the Olympics. Record Searchlight freelancer Marge Dun

According to the Jan. 6 Record Searchlight, Gov. Jerry Brown warns of cuts if the proposed taxes are rejected, based on his proposed general fund budget of $92.5 billion — approximately $7 billion more than last year. Revenue last year was 7.7 percent more than anticipated. Areas targeted to be cut are primarily healt

The Record Searchlight features significantly in the adjacent story by California Watch, which among other things raises the question of how we came to review a patient's medical records recently and why we decided not to run an earlier investigative story that raised significant questions about Shasta Regional Medical

Record Searchlight staff photographers Andreas Fuhrmann and Greg Barnette present some of their favorite photographs from 2011.

You have identified Randy Gale Loard as a transient in the articles that have appeared in the Record Searchlight ever since Randy's throat was slit and and his body was stabbed three different times. He bled to death on Charles Drive on Nov. 5.

Here's a look back at the north state's top sport stories as chosen by the Record Searchlight's sports staff.

The Record Searchlight editorial staff annually chooses the top 10 stories of the year. Today we're presenting summaries of the stories that ranked one through five in our newsroom poll. Stories ranking six through 10 appeared in Friday's paper and are listed at the end of this report. These are the stories that ha

Here's a look back at the north state's top sport stories as chosen by the Record Searchlight's sports staff.

Not on the radio anymore, at least not on Redding talk station KQMS. The Record Searchlight columnist and, more recently, KQMS morning talk host tells me that she was informed after the close of this morning's show that today's broadcast...

The Record Searchlight editorial staff annually chooses the top 10 stories of the year. Today we're presenting summaries of the stories that ranked six through 10 in our newsroom poll. On Saturday we'll present the top five stories of the year.

Sometime-Record Searchlight columnist Steven Greenhut discusses it here, along with making some predictions for 2012. Excerpt: "Mainstream" critics recently have mocked Paul's crusade against laws that ban the selling of raw milk. They say this is such a small issue,...

A little story about a story that you didn't read in the Record Searchlight Sunday. California Watch, a nonprofit investigative reporting organization based in Berkeley, covers a wide range of hard-hitting stories with a staff of veteran journalists who've found a market for their work in both small papers like o

E-mailed Scott in Portland, his new home, asking about the relative lack of rain we've had this month and what it may portend. Here's his reply, just received: This has been an extraordinarily dry month, not just for Northern California...

On Dec. 4, the Record Searchlight ran an article regarding the prevalence of knee-replacement surgeries in the north state. After receiving several inquiries, the administrative staff at Mayers Memorial Hospital District would like to address this article and present details we hope will make the information clearer.

Response to Nov. 27 article depicting Weed as a slum.

Thanks to the Record Searchlight for its Sunday spread on the Republican presidential candidates. What a sorry lot they are!

This is in response to Vivian Maudin's letter and attack on Bob Hall. We just read the Nov. 27 article in the Record Searchlight and found only one statement by Hall — not "several," as she says. Were you offended because there might be a ring of truth to what he said?

As the article notes, Shasta County educators are fretting about the supposedly low ratios of local high school grads who attend college or go on to graduate from a four-year institution. For an alternative perspective, herewith an excerpt from "The...

The media, including the Record Searchlight, have been full of stories about the U.S. Postal Service's plans to downsize and reduce services. Isn't that marvelous?! Our country is in a debt crisis, but the public has great difficulty finding any public service they can do without.

Regarding the Outdoors photo on page 6C in Sunday's Record Searchlight, perhaps Ken Snyder does not know that when you put your fingers in a fish's gills and hold it up, you kill it.

In reply to Leesa Webster ("Speak Your Piece," Sunday) and the Record Searchlight editorial (Sunday) concerning postal cuts.

"Postal Center move on tap, Redding could lose up to 70 Jobs," was reported on the Record Searchlight front page Nov. 18. Information in this one-sided article was from the U.S. Postal Service. Due to the lack of good investigating reporting, there were no inquires to the unions that represent the 70 impacted "j

I have read in the Record Searchlight of many good Samaritans in our area.

The Record Searchlight recently published a letter that criticized the Redding Police Department for escorting an individual out of a contentious City Council meeting last week. That letter failed to note, however, that the individual had metal screws in his hand that he had inserted between his fingers, similar to "bra

This excellent recent article in the Record Searchlight reviews the successful efforts of area schools to incorporate locally grown, fresh foods into the school menu. With so many local kids getting a significant portion of their diet from school, I found this to be a really uplifting and encouraging read. Click on the i

Who knew that the scrap of a Record Searchlight from 1982, blowing along Tehama Street on a recent fall day, had even more stories to reveal?

The article by Ryan Sabalow that was published by the Record Searchlight on Oct. 6 is the worst piece of yellow journalism I have ever seen.

We have all heard the expression "damning with faint praise". The Record Searchlight editorial of the Friday turns that upside down to give us "praising with faint damnation". Their censure of the sheriffs is far, far too timid, and amounts to de facto support and approval.

This year's Thanksgiving Day special edition of the Record Searchlight will be delivered to all seven-day print subscribers.

The Record Searchlight's readers are a smart bunch, and they ask some great questions — like this one in response to the recent discussion of red-light cameras:

I would like to thank the Record Searchlight for its excellent article ("Learning Curve," Oct. 23) about how to navigate the new roundabouts.

I've developed a reasonably thick skin when it comes to criticism of the Record Searchlight over the years. I figure, hey, we dish it out -- and we ought to be able to take it. But this comment from reader...

It was overhyped after all. That's because it ain't happening - at least for now. CalTrans announcement yesterday that it's postponing "Carmageddon North" because of lousy weather is on the surface a head-scratcher. Workers were set to close the southbound I-5 to eastbound 44 and the westbound 44

Buy with no money down? Homes in Anderson often qualify for the attractive USDA loan. Plug the price into the handy payment calculator to the right for 30 years at 4%. You may b

Bill Dawson began working for the Record Searchlight when few could imagine the end of "hot type" letters cast into molten lead, and celebrated his retirement last week by removing a Blackberry from his belt clip.

I just read in the Record Searchlight that the county will be dropping the insurance for the home health care workers, who make only $9.20 an hour. Odds are most of them will quit as most work very hard for the $9.20 an hour mainly for the health insurance.

I just wanted to commend the Record Searchlight for taking the time to do such a nice article on Estaline Watkins turning 105 years old. I was not only impressed with the article, but with the fact that Sean Longoria took the time to really interview Estaline to find out about her life. At one point I asked Sean how much ti

Dear Record Searchlight readers, I am completely overwhelmed.

It seems like every time something bad happens in this area, the media wants to find a way to connect it to medical marijuana. Most recently the Record Searchlight printed a story about someone who was experiencing meth-induced paranoia and started shooting off his gun at imaginary thieves. This story was turned into yet an